Subject: Colemanballs (Page 15)

It seems that they're playing with one leg tied together.

We must have had 99 per cent of the match; it was the other three per cent that cost us.

Dutch football player & manager

Roy Evans bleeds red blood.

English football player & manager

They’ll perhaps finish in the top three; I can’t see them finishing any higher.

English football player, coach & manager

I’ve told the players to win so that I can have the cash to buy some new ones.

English football player & manager

I’ve just noticed something interesting; the left and right backs have both got long sleeve shirts on.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

He just got his body between himself and the goal.

English football player

£5.3 million is a large loaf to be throwing away before a ball's been kicked.

English football player

We were a little bit outnumbered there, it was two against two.

Scottish football player

We’ve got great speed in the team, not just Gary Speed, but great speed!

British football commentator

Nobody took the responsibility of going to kill Yakin.

Irish football player

If United get through, they’ll play Chelsea or Liverpool, in an all-Premiership tie, which is also an all-English tie, and also an all-British tie.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

Whether that was a penalty or not, the referee thought otherwise.

English football player & commentator

Scotland don’t have to score tonight, but they do have to win.

Scottish football player & manager

It’s now 1-1, an exact reversal of the score on Saturday.

Here they come, every color of the rainbow: black, white, brown.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

The lads really ran their socks into the ground.

Once again it was Gough who stood firm for Scotland in the air.

Scottish football player

Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit.

English football player & manager

The problems at Wimbledon seem to be that the club has suffered a loss of complacency.

Irish football player & manager

I do want to play the long ball and I do not want to play the short ball. I think long and short balls is what football is all about.

British football commentator